4.1-STABLE – fetch now going just fine

If you read my article on Upgrading to
4.1-STABLE – things to watch out for, you’ll know that I, and a few otheres, had
problems with fetch. This problem has been fixed. Thank you Dag-Erling
Smorgrav for providing the fix. Keep reading and I’ll show you how I fixed the
problem.

ASSUMPTION: I’m assuming you didn’t do a make clean after your last build
world. If you did, I’m not sure if these instructions will work for you. I
recommend instead, that you cvsup, then build world. See The make-world script for how I do this.

Fetch the code

Now this may be a problem if your fetch is broken. If is it, you can
always grab my 4.0-STABLE version of fetch from my website. It is available at [sorry that file is no longer available].
If you get that file, you should

move it file to /usr/bin

cd /usr/bin

mv fetch fetch.doesnotwork

mv fetch.4.0-stable fetch

Then fetch should work.

Then you should grab the fixed source code, after first saving the original.

Compile fetch

If you followed the instructions above for fetching http.c, then here’s how
I compiled fetch:

make cleandir
make obj
make depend
make install

Then your fetch should work correctly.

Cleaning up

I notice that the original 4.1-STABLE version (which caused the problem)
reported that the -b and -t options were deprecated. The fixed version does not do
this. In other words, I’m still using, and must use fetch -b to obtain my files.

If
you are happy with how everything is working, I’d delete the backups you made: